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REVIEWS UNDERWORLD ruins crying out to be found and explored. Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age Hancock, together with his wife/collabora- by Graham Hancock tor Santha Faiia—who took the splendid Michael Joseph/Penguin, UK, 2002 photos that grace the colour sections of this ISBN 0-718-14400-7 (744 pp he) book—have dived amidst many of these Price: A$49.95 (avail. July); NZ$65.00 + ruins. The evidence presented here for p&h (avail Ma ): £20.00 + £5.00 p&p; flooded ice-age kingdoms is very exciting. Euro33.90: US$45.00 inc. s&h , A huge book, not just in size but in import. Availability: Australia— Penguin; NZ/UK/ Europe—NEXUS offices; USA/Canada— LOVE AND DEATH IN THE VALLEY NEX' K Offi 1 +44 1342 322854 by Rev. Kevin D. Annett US UK Office, tel +44 1342 32285 Kevin Annett, Vancouver, Canada, 2002 ISBN n/a (107pp I/f spiral bound) Price: C$20.00 + C$10.00 o/s p&h (make out int. money order to Pamela Holm) Availability: Canada—Rev. Kevin D. Annett, c/- 22592-132 Ave, Maple Ridge, BC, V4R 2R2, email kevinannett@ yahoo.ca or kevin_annett@hotmail.com, website http://annett55.freewebsites.com en I was reviewing Hidden from History, the Report of the Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada (see 9/01; 9/02), it struck me that Kevin Annett, who helped form the group, would have his own interesting story to tell. I was right. Rev. Kevin Annett has now published his own account of the stories of atrocities he encountered after he accepted a United Church ministry in the Alberni Valley on ur understanding of ancient civilisations | Vancouver Island in 1992, as well as of the has been hindered by archaeologists and circumstances of his sacking from his min- historians who don't consider that other dis- istry in 1995 and from the Church in 1997. ciplines such as climatology, geology and Love and Death in the Valley may be a slim, astronomy might be able to make a contribu- __ spiral-bound book self-published on a small tion to the body of knowledge. budget, but it is large in heart and integrity. _The orthodox version of prehistory makes Before arriving in Alberni, Annett was a little reference to what the world might have _ politically active minister on the streets of looked like, say, at the last glacial maxi- Vancouver, so his natural passion for truth mum, and this is a crucial error, says author —_and social justice was sparked when he Graham Hancock (Heaven's Mirror, came to learn of the plight of the poor and Fingerprints of the Gods), for it ignores the dispossessed in his new ministry—mostly possibility that advanced civilisations exist- Indian tribespeople. He created waves by ed far back in "pre-Deluge" times. attracting increasing numbers of indigenous Marine archaeologists have barely begun locals to his open services, to the disdain of to find the vestiges of cities and civilisations the white, well-heeled community stalwarts. that were submerged during times of rising He set up a food bank (dubbed "Loaves and sea levels. Hancock puts forward the Fishes"), allowed native chiefs and unmar- astounding figure that 25 million square ried mothers their say at the pulpit, lobbied kilometres of land was lost at the end of the for better living conditions for the town's last ice age in the period between 17,000 ghetto-dwellers, and publicly exposed the and 7,000 years ago. While touching on Church's involvement in state-sponsored tor- examples of land lost around Australia, ture, rape and murder via the residential Europe and the Americas, his main focus in schools system. But it wasn't until he chal- Underworld is on sunken ruins off the coast lenged the United Church's sale to a logging of northwestern India, off Malta in the — company of what is legally Ahousaht land Mediterranean and in the sea around China, gy nearby Flores Island that he was sacked. Taiwan and Japan. Some of these sites His "trial" makes a mockery of true could be described as "megalithic", though Christian values and democratic principles. the vast Indian ruins found in the Gulf of Rev. Annett continues his vocation and his Cambay may well be connected with the campaign for justice for native people, ancient Vedic civilisation (see Twilight despite the smear tactics used against him Zone this issue). Looking at the maps pro- vided, there would have to be a wealth of and tabs average Ppa. alias learn UNDERWORLD Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age by Graham Hancock Michael Joseph/Penguin, UK, 2002 ISBN 0-718-14400-7 (741pp hc) Price: A$49.95 (avail. July); NZ$65.00 + p&h (avail. May); £20.00 + £5.00 p&p; Euro33.90; US$45.00 inc. s&h Availability: Australia— Penguin; NZ/UK/ Europe—NEXUS offices; USA/Canada— NEXUS UK Office, tel +44 1342 322854 HANCOCK NDERWORLD ur understanding of ancient civilisations has been hindered by archaeologists and historians who don't consider that other dis- ciplines such as climatology, geology and astronomy might be able to make a contribu- tion to the body of knowledge. The orthodox version of prehistory makes little reference to what the world might have looked like, say, at the last glacial maxi- mum, and this is a crucial error, says author Graham Hancock (Heaven's Mirror; Fingerprints of the Gods), for it ignores the possibility that advanced civilisations exist- ed far back in "pre-Deluge" times. Marine archaeologists have barely begun to find the vestiges of cities and civilisations that were submerged during times of rising sea levels. Hancock puts forward the astounding figure that 25 million square kilometres of land was lost at the end of the last ice age in the period between 17,000 and 7,000 years ago. While touching on examples of land lost around Australia, Europe and the Americas, his main focus in Underworld is on sunken ruins off the coast of northwestern India, off Malta in the Mediterranean and in the sea around China, Taiwan and Japan. Some of these sites could be described as "megalithic", though the vast Indian ruins found in the Gulf of Cambay may well be connected with the ancient Vedic civilisation (see Twilight Zone this issue). Looking at the maps pro- vided, there would have to be a wealth of APRIL — MAY 2002 NEXUS + 77 www.nexusmagazine.com